Argentina's Y2K Readiness
Comes Under Focus -- Finally

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By Camilla Gallagherow Jones Newswires

Updated July 15, 1999 12:01 a.m. ET

BUENOS AIRES -- Awareness of the need to address year-2000 issues kicked in relatively late in Argentina, forcing many to focus on contingency plans or simply to pray that their computer systems don't fail come Jan. 1.

Voices of alarm first surfaced in 1996, but efforts to combat the year 2000 computer glitch didn't take hold until July 1997, when the central bank adopted a monitoring role.